A barren tree, alone in a field, its leafless branches clawing at a gray midwinter sky, dominates the opening shot of Lou Howe’s Gabriel with its barky bulk. The visual speaks perfectly to the film’s dreary...

Twelve-year-old Grace Kaufman has just completed the most awesome month of her young life. I don’t mean “awesome” in tween terms: she didn’t get asked out by that cute boy in math class, attend the school dance...

A dismembered hand, half-buried in a pile of coal, beckons us into the sinister urban sprawl of Diao Yinan’s thrilling crime drama Black Coal, Thin Ice. The limb is one of several body parts cropping up in coal plants...

In his early 20s, Ronnie Gene Blevins was traveling Europe when a random thought popped into his head. Based on nothing, he says, he realized that he wanted to move to Los Angeles and pursue an acting career, despite...

Watching Richard Ayoade’s The Double, I couldn’t help but think of the climactic hotel room reveal in David Fincher’s wholly cerebral Fight Club, when the narrator, incarnated by Edward Norton, realizes Brad...

The ingeniously creative mind of Julian Lennon has just barely been tapped into. We all know he is no stranger to the music industry -- he grabbed a Grammy Award nomination for Best New Artist in 1985 for his debut...

Before there were bands like Twisted Sister, The Ramones and the Sex Pistols, there was Alice Cooper – a group made up of five guys from Phoenix, Arizona that shook up the music world...

Garnet Frost lights a cigarette and asks with a tinge of melancholia, “What happened to life?” It’s this existential question that rattles the mind of the principal subject in Ed Perkins’ first feature-length...

Therapist Russ Harris once wrote that “the feeling of love comes and goes on a whim; you can't control it. But the action of love is something you can do, regardless of how you are feeling.”

Director Marshall Curry's Point and Shoot took the Best Documentary Feature award at the Tribeca Film Festival last week -- a prize well-deserved not only for spotlighting the story of Matthew VanDyke, a man...